Self-Defense: Sending a Moral Message
What kind of message should the law send when it comes to a woman who kills a man who has been abusing, assaulting, or threatening her?
“I think it is important that we send the right moral message in the law,” Joshua Dressler, a respected authority on criminal law and procedure said in a lecture at the Marquette University Law School.
In the annual Barrock Lecture at the Law School last week, Dressler said that even as some feminists advocate for expanding what is justifiable under the label of self-defense, the law should proceed cautiously.